Visitors from whatever-whatever-whatever.bestall.ru

Nuke Soldier Joined: Feb 29, 2004 Posts: 25

How do I ban visitors with name like whatever-whatever-whatever.bestall.ru in Admin Secure?
In my MS-Analysis - Referrals, there are several visitors from xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx. bestall.ru every day and the statistics seems to be all wrong.

Is it possible to ban them? Can I add any lines in my .htaccess file to prevent them to access my site?

Lieutenant Joined: Oct 20, 2004 Posts: 165

You can use .htaccess to ban the domain :

Code:

Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from 000.000.00.00 somedomain.com

Use either the ip or the domain. I have read that it is best to use the ip so that the server doesn't have to resolve the domain name (performance). I know that Admin Secure will ban ip's but not sure about domains, you might be able to ban a range of ips instead.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12482

bestall.ru resolves to 81.177.16.100
Using that, we can get the IP range for the entire ISP
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=81.177.16.100

81.177.16.0 - 81.177.17.255

Nuke Soldier Joined: Feb 29, 2004 Posts: 25

Do I add it like this in my .htaccess file then :

Code:

Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from 81.177.16.0 - 81.177.17.255

is it possible to add more ranges?